Word: diplomatic
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...European leaders premier Wen Jiabao called for more global regulation of financial markets, but that's become conventional wisdom pretty much everywhere. "Few among Beijing policymakers are arguing to build more walls between China and the outside world when it comes to trade or financial markets," says one western diplomat who attended the ASEM meeting last week. Officials in Beijing are quick to point out that key policymakers at the Bank of China, the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Finance are all reform minded. Many hold advanced degrees in economics or business from the U.S. (though...
...worked carefully on his statement. He had reason for care: Powell left the Bush Administration in early 2005 with critics on both sides of the ideological divide. Conservatives, who never fully trusted him to begin with, felt Powell was far too moderate to be George W. Bush's top diplomat. Liberals, meanwhile, were not ready to forgive his role in hyping the case against Saddam Hussein. After the 2004 election, Powell was hurried out the door by the White House in a fashion that his supporters found graceless...
...former U.S. diplomat in Shanghai who began his career as a translator for a ping-pong tournament between U.S. and Chinese competitors spoke here yesterday on China’s path to modernization. Douglas G. Spelman, who served as Consul General in Shanghai for three years, was the featured speaker for the Neuhauser Memorial Lecture held at Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Spelman, who was an East Asian history Ph.D. candidate at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the time that he had his first foray into Chinese-American relations with...
...efforts have turned out well. Some diplomats believe the solution he helped draft to the Kosovo war in 1999, which stipulated that Kosovo remain under Serbia's control, left the problem unresolved and sowed the seeds for the recent flare-ups between the West and Russia in the Balkans and Caucasus. "It was not a good deal. We should have gone all the way," says a U.S. diplomat familiar with the compromise. Ahtisaari has also been criticized for supporting the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, which he did on humanitarian grounds...
...includes a gold medal and $1.42 million, Ahtisaari told Norwegian TV that he was "very pleased and grateful." In previous interviews he has said the attention generated by such an award would help sustain the work of his nongovernmental organization, the Crisis Management Initiative. The career of this northern diplomat has not always produced the hoped-for outcome or held the spotlight. But it demonstrates the value of a cool and steady hand in turbulent times...